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Hey, Ron. The 150 pages of this book would certainly be a labor for me to read at this point. Can you please explain what you mean by understanding this "often misunderstood subject"? What is the subject? How is it misunderstood? This implies of course that you understand what is often misunderstood. Help me out.

Now, having posted those questions I'd like to comment. I think it is pretty darned hard to make a distinction between Scripture and revelation. I mean, what are those "innumerable things in scripture" that God has to reveal that He has not already? How can we be sure whether it's His failure to reveal or our failure to read carefully?

This site is being developed to help you study the first five books of the Bible. I call them, The Gospel According to Moses, for Jesus said, "Moses wrote of me"

My desire is to help you dig into these books to discover for yourself what Moses wrote about Jesus Christ who is the Word of God.

The bible study you are teaching the students, did God personally reveal this to you or did you learn this from a teacher? I ask this in all sincerity not wanting to cause division but with a desire that we all can learn from HIM.

This site is being developed to help you study the first five books of the Bible. I call them, The Gospel According to Moses, for Jesus said, "Moses wrote of me"

My desire is to help you dig into these books to discover for yourself what Moses wrote about Jesus Christ who is the Word of God.

The bible study you are teaching the students, did God personally reveal this to you or did you learn this from a teacher? I ask this in all sincerity not wanting to cause division but with a desire that we all can learn from HIM.

your Bro. Tony

Yes, it looks very familiar. Your question is good, but I'm really not sure how to answer it. If you look more deeply into my studies you'll notice that there's not a whole lot that is really mysterious or that profound. I try to help people discover truth in the Scriptures, which I believe involves both reading them and God revealing Himself through them. It has seemed to me that both things are necessary. As when Jesus walked the earth, for a person to understand who He really was involved first either seeing Him (or hearing about Him) and then God revealing to that person more of what they could not see on the surface. But the surface was not inconsequential.What do you think?

I try to help people discover truth in the Scriptures, which I believe involves both reading them and God revealing Himself through them. It has seemed to me that both things are necessary. As when Jesus walked the earth, for a person to understand who He really was involved first either seeing Him (or hearing about Him) and then God revealing to that person more of what they could not see on the surface. But the surface was not inconsequential.What do you think?

Tim

Amen Tim.

What do you see when you look at me? Not the visible me that your eyes can see. For in Christ I am dead, yet alive and free. Free to be it all, as he lives in me.

to me.."revelation" as the flesh describes it and understands it is only yet another way to compare.

I sure agree with you, Adam. I mean sometimes I've read things from some here on the Shack, I scratch my head, get frustrated and wonder why what was "revealed" to them was not "revealed" to me. I wonder, What's wrong with me? Comparison.

Hey Ron. That's fine to remove it, but I'm not sure what you are sorry to me for. I was not offended in either way.I think you're topic is a very good one, link or no link, and I'd like to discuss it further with all.Did you catch what I wrote to Adam? What did you think?

Of course it is fine to remove the link as it was your thread but i think sometimes you miss that the unintended results of a post sometimes bring more fruit than the original post intended.funny how the spirit works that way.i was breezing through this post today and had forgotten the original starting point,only noticed that the starting post was missing.but then,in reading, a very interesting thread on revelation began to surface. in our walk in this realm,revelation on any level is the fuel that keeps our "spiritual" heads above water.that we need Jesus is a revelation,that he died for payment for all sin,past present and future is a revelation, that Jesus has saved us is a revelation...and on and on.in this life,there will always be a next step to look towards and yet,the place we are right now is a place we can find peace and contentment in Him.that is what makes living interesting i think sometimes we seek more because of an inborn hunger in our inner beings but even then he is the author and finisher of our faith and there is a rest in that.

in our walk in this realm,revelation on any level is the fuel that keeps our "spiritual" heads above water.that we need Jesus is a revelation,that he died for payment for all sin,past present and future is a revelation, that Jesus has saved us is a revelation...and on and on.in this life,there will always be a next step to look towards and yet,the place we are right now is a place we can find peace and contentment in Him.that is what makes living interesting i think sometimes we seek more because of an inborn hunger in our inner beings but even then he is the author and finisher of our faith and there is a rest in that.

Of course it is fine to remove the link as it was your thread but i think sometimes you miss that the unintended results of a post sometimes bring more fruit than the original post intended.funny how the spirit works that way.i was breezing through this post today and had forgotten the original starting point,only noticed that the starting post was missing.but then,in reading, a very interesting thread on revelation began to surface. in our walk in this realm,revelation on any level is the fuel that keeps our "spiritual" heads above water.that we need Jesus is a revelation,that he died for payment for all sin,past present and future is a revelation, that Jesus has saved us is a revelation...and on and on.in this life,there will always be a next step to look towards and yet,the place we are right now is a place we can find peace and contentment in Him.that is what makes living interesting i think sometimes we seek more because of an inborn hunger in our inner beings but even then he is the author and finisher of our faith and there is a rest in that.

Dave you have siad some very good things here!

It is peace[the kind we long for] to know that my life patterns do not distract or derail the Living God"-Adam

Would you mind sharing a bit more if you would on how the flesh describes revelation, and what do you understand it to be compared to?

Thanks,

Ron

Hi Ron,

I see the flesh as a something that lives in the realm of comparisons and the land of outer appearances. Very often we get the idea from the "old us" that "revelation" is somehow a doing on our part, you know something we CAN take credit for and or contrive.[but of course we would never say that!] Realizing something is simple recognition..beyond that I'm not sure we can produce this wonderous,miraculous realization any other way. It just comes..even in the midst of TRYING to produce "revelation" itself! Jeez, when you think on it, we ARE the revelation!

It is peace[the kind we long for] to know that my life patterns do not distract or derail the Living God"-Adam

Of course it is fine to remove the link as it was your thread but i think sometimes you miss that the unintended results of a post sometimes bring more fruit than the original post intended.funny how the spirit works that way.i was breezing through this post today and had forgotten the original starting point,only noticed that the starting post was missing.but then,in reading, a very interesting thread on revelation began to surface. in our walk in this realm,revelation on any level is the fuel that keeps our "spiritual" heads above water.that we need Jesus is a revelation,that he died for payment for all sin,past present and future is a revelation, that Jesus has saved us is a revelation...and on and on.in this life,there will always be a next step to look towards and yet,the place we are right now is a place we can find peace and contentment in Him.that is what makes living interesting i think sometimes we seek more because of an inborn hunger in our inner beings but even then he is the author and finisher of our faith and there is a rest in that.

As long as the spirit doesn't bring frustration but an increasing experience of that rest, that is my intent. Thanks Dave for sharing your heart here.

Ron

What do you see when you look at me? Not the visible me that your eyes can see. For in Christ I am dead, yet alive and free. Free to be it all, as he lives in me.

I see the flesh as a something that lives in the realm of comparisons and the land of outer appearances. Very often we get the idea from the "old us" that "revelation" is somehow a doing on our part, you know something we CAN take credit for and or contrive.[but of course we would never say that!] Realizing something is simple recognition..beyond that I'm not sure we can produce this wonderous,miraculous realization any other way. It just comes..even in the midst of TRYING to produce "revelation" itself! Jeez, when you think on it, we ARE the revelation!

Very nice! I love it.

Ron

What do you see when you look at me? Not the visible me that your eyes can see. For in Christ I am dead, yet alive and free. Free to be it all, as he lives in me.

to me.."revelation" as the flesh describes it and understands it is only yet another way to compare.

It makes sense in how the flesh can compare levels of "revelation". But revelation it self that is of the mind of Christ...... isnt' that just seeing and hearing all things of him??? Or isn't Christ the revelation since he is the word of God as well as the wisdom from God????

In other words revelation in itself isn't fleshy, isn' t it just when it is tied to something outside the mind of Christ that it can be twisted to be something fleshly???

Realizing something is simple recognition..beyond that I'm not sure we can produce this wondrous,miraculous realization any other way. It just comes..even in the midst of TRYING to produce "revelation" itself!

Sorry I didn't get back to this right away. It's just that my life has been full of stuff lately! Well all I meant was that since we are His and our Life is actually His life..well we ARE the revelation of Christ Himself to ourselves and those around usand well just PERIOD. Jeez even the trees and rocks acknowledge us as the sons of God! I want to say that modern,lifeless christianity would have us beleive that revelation is something we can get better and better at "doing". God Himself puts this want for more clarity in seeing Him as our life into our hearts and it grows only when we are finding that we run into cloudy spots in this life, and these bodies.But I am inclined to encourage that God Himself runs the show with respect to this witness, this "revelation". I mean what is there to reveal? I will tell you...Christ risen and crucified. He runs this through our veins at all times.

Edited by luvin on Jan-03-09 at 6:33pm

It is peace[the kind we long for] to know that my life patterns do not distract or derail the Living God"-Adam